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Matt Niebuhr is an artist living and working in West Branch, Iowa.

.../miscellaneous - is a personal journal, self educational in nature, containing notes and images that inspire me, or that I wish to learn more about - as such, it includes works by other people as noted with full acknowledgment and credit to authors and sources where possible.

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February 14, 2011
in Matt Niebuhr drawings circle points drawing drafting graphite graphite on paper details points lines
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detail: untitled (line studies - #1 - three target construction)2011_02_13graphite on paper18” x 23 3/8” (45.7 x 59.4)cmMatt Niebuhr The magic moment when constructing a circle from three points comes after laying out perpendicular lines to find their intersection and therefor the center then to put the compass at that center and to connect the points in one complete motion  -  that is the moment closest to magic for me.  A circle is but a line forming a closed loop, every point on which is a fixed distance from a center. Maybe too, it’s a metaphor for life, on the magic of finding a center…

detail: untitled (line studies - #1 - three target construction)
2011_02_13
graphite on paper
18” x 23 3/8” (45.7 x 59.4)cm
Matt Niebuhr

The magic moment when constructing a circle from three points comes after laying out perpendicular lines to find their intersection and therefor the center then to put the compass at that center and to connect the points in one complete motion  -  that is the moment closest to magic for me.  A circle is but a line forming a closed loop, every point on which is a fixed distance from a center.

Maybe too, it’s a metaphor for life, on the magic of finding a center…

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February 4, 2011
in circle drafting geometry target forms points lines Matt Niebuhr
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untitled (line studies - #1 - two target construction) 2011_01 graphite on paper 18” x 23 3/8” (45.7 x 59.4)cmMatt Niebuhr (a geometry construction using a compass and straightedge - two circles, constructed from three points each located at random on the page - then divided equally to form additional circles, rendered in poche to represent disks. A circle is a line forming a closed loop, every point on which is a fixed distance from a center point. A disk is a round portion of a plane which has a circular outline)

untitled (line studies - #1 - two target construction)
2011_01
graphite on paper
18” x 23 3/8” (45.7 x 59.4)cm
Matt Niebuhr

(a geometry construction using a compass and straightedge - two circles, constructed from three points each located at random on the page - then divided equally to form additional circles, rendered in poche to represent disks. A circle is a line forming a closed loop, every point on which is a fixed distance from a center point. A disk is a round portion of a plane which has a circular outline)

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